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The States and their States

By mailmebritt0416
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    The timespan

    This is when the state became states.

  • Delaware

    Delaware
    -The capital is Dover.
    - Located on the Atlantic Coast in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States
    - The state gets its name from Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr.He was English nobleman and Virginia's first colonial governor, after whom what is now called Cape Henlopen was originally named.

  • Pennsylvania

    Pennsylvania
    -The capital is harrisburg.
    - Located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.
    -It is the only state that does not border the Atlantic Ocean.

  • New Jersey

    New Jersey
    -Trenton is the state capital.
    -Its nickname is the garden state.
    -During the 19th century, factories in cities like Elizabeth, Paterson, and Trenton helped to drive the Industrial Revolution.

  • New Jersey

    New Jersey
    -Trenton is the state capital.
    -the second-largest industry is tourism
    -The state flower is the purple violet.

  • Georgia

    Georgia
    -The capital is Atlanta.
    - It is bordered on the south by Florida; on the east by the Atlantic Ocean and South Carolina; on the west by Alabama; and on the north by Tennessee and North Carolina.
    -The north part of the state is in the Blue ridge Mountains.

  • Connecticut

    Connecticut
    -Hartford is the capital.
    -It is named for the Connecticut River, the major U.S. river that approximately bisects the state.
    -It is bordered on the south by Long Island Sound. Bordered on the west by New York State.Borderd on the north by Massachusetts, and on the east by Rhode Island.

  • Massachusetts

    Massachusetts
    -The capital is boston.
    -It played a significant historical role in American history.
    -It is the 7th smallest stae in the U.S.

  • Maryland

    Maryland
    -The capital is Annapolis.

  • South Carolina

    South Carolina
    -Columbia is the state capital

  • New Hampshire

    New Hampshire
    -The capital is Concord
    -The states nickname is the Granite State
    -New Hampshire's scenic and recreational resources help tourism bring in over $3.5 billion into the state anually.

  • Virginia

    Virginia
    -The state was named for England's "Virgin Queen," Elizabeth I.
    -is known as "the birthplace of a nation".
    -Richmond is the capital.

  • New York

    New York
    -The first American chess tournament was in New York in 1843.
    -Dairying is the most important farming activity with over 18,000 cattle and or calves farms.
    -Albany is the state capital.

  • North Carolina

    North Carolina
    -Raleigh is the capital
    -North Carolina is the largest producer of sweet potatoes in the nation.

  • Rhode Island

    Rhode Island
    -Providence is the state capital

  • Vermont

    Vermont
    -Montpelier is the state capital

  • Tennessee

    Tennessee
    -Nashville is the capital

  • Ohio

    Ohio
    -Columbus is the capital

  • Mississippi

    Mississippi
    -The capital is Jackson.
    -Half of the states area is covered with wild trees.

  • Alabama

    Alabama
    -The state capital is Montgomery
    - Alabama workers built the first rocket to put humans on the moon.
    -The Confederate flag was designed and first flown in Alabama in 1861.

  • Missouri

    Missouri
    -The capital is jefferson City
    -The state seal is in the center of a red white and blue stripe on the flag.
    -The motto is:The welfare of the people shall be the supreme law

  • Arkansas

    Arkansas
    -The state is about equally divided between lowlands and highlands.
    -Arkansas main rivers are the Mississippi, Arkansas, White, St. Francis, Red, Ouachita.
    -Little rock is the capital.

  • Michigan

    Michigan
    -The capital is Lansing.
    -The largest city in Michigan si Detroit.
    -Michigan was home to Native American cultures before colonization by Europeans happened.

  • Texas

    Texas
    -Austin is the capital.

  • Wisconsin

    Wisconsin
    -The first practical typewriter was designed in this state.
    -Madison is the capital.

  • Minnesota

    Minnesota
    -Saint Paul is the cities capital.
    -The state flower is the Cypripedium reginae.
    -The state contains 72 state parks.

  • Oregon

    Oregon
    -Salem is the capital

  • West Virginia

    West Virginia
    • Charleston is the capital.

  • Nevada

    Nevada
    -Carson city is the state capital.
    -The word Nevada in spanish means snowcapped.
    - The official flag was adopted on March 26, 1929

  • Nebraska

    Nebraska
    -Lincoln is the state capital
    -Farming is big in Nebraska
    -Their are 4 major rivers:Missouri River, Niobrara River, Platte River, Republican River

  • South Dakota

    South Dakota
    -Pierre is the capital

  • North Dakota

    North Dakota
    -Bis mark is the capital

  • Montana

    -Helena is the capital.
    -Agriculture= Cattle, wheat, barley, sugar beets, hay, hogs
    -It has 56 counties.

  • Washington

    Washington
    -Olympia is the state capital.
    -It is the only state to be named after a United States president.
    -Microsoft Corporation is located in Redmond.

  • Wyoming

    Wyoming
    -Cheyenne is the capital.

  • Utah

    Utah
    -Salt lake city is the capital

  • Oklahoma

    Oklahoma
    -Oklahoma city

  • New Mexico

    New Mexico
    -The capital is Sante Fe.
    -Minerals are the state's richest natural resource

  • Arizona

    Arizona
    -The state flag was adoptedin 1917.
    -Manufacturing, Mining and tourism are all big in Arizona.
    -All the state's main atrractions are represented in thge state seal.

  • Alaska

    Alaska
    -There are places that are light 24 hours but they also have places that are dark 24 hours.
    -Alaska has 29 volcanoes!